{"id":35514,"date":"2018-01-01T19:17:27","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T18:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=35514"},"modified":"2025-01-01T05:00:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:00:02","slug":"whats-behind-this-strange-form-that-was-spotted-in-the-sky-over-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/01\/01\/whats-behind-this-strange-form-that-was-spotted-in-the-sky-over-arizona\/","title":{"rendered":"What's behind this strange form that was spotted in the sky over Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, December 22, at 5:27 pm local time, when it was getting dark, photographer <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user1035029\">Jesse Watson<\/a> captured this strange form in the sky over his hometown: Yuma, in Arizona (USA).<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/07\/31\/a-spectacular-360o-video-that-takes-you-to-space-as-the-first-polish-cosmonaut\/\">A Spectacular 360\u00ba Video that Takes You to Space as the First Polish Cosmonaut<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/05\/08\/mauna-kea-one-of-those-places-that-inspire-you-to-spend-the-time-counting-stars\/\">Mauna Kea: one of those places that inspire you to spend the time counting stars<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>Watson even recorded a video with the evolution that traced that strange form:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/248591160?color=859d2d&title=0&byline=0&portrait=0\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>It has to be said that it is not a mystery: <strong>these stelae were generated by a launch of the aerospace company SpaceX<\/strong>, founded by Elon Musk, the founder of PayPal and Tesla Motors. Specifically, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasaspaceflight.com\/2017\/12\/spacex-2017-campaign-iridium-4-launch\/\">what you see in the image is a Falcon 9 Block 3 rocket<\/a>. It was launched from the Spacial Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) of the Vandenberg Air Force Base, located on the coast of California. <strong>The rocket transported the fourth group of satellites of<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iridium.com\/network\/iridiumnext\">the Iridium NEXT constellation<\/a>, whose purpose is to implement global mobile communications by land, sea and sky with a greater bandwidth, using a low Earth orbit and providing coverage over 100% of the terrestrial surface.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, December 22, at 5:27 pm local time, when it was getting dark, photographer Jesse Watson captured this strange form in the sky over his hometown: Yuma, in Arizona (USA).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,16878],"tags":[2669,11355,11354,11356,11357,10431,7521,8744],"class_list":["post-35514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-space","tag-arizona","tag-elon-musk","tag-falcon-9","tag-iridium-next","tag-spacex","tag-united-states","tag-vandenberg-afb","tag-yuma"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}